Dutch court orders sperm donor to stop after 550 children
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Nation’s guidelines say no donor should father more than 25 children in 12 families
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Original Title: TIL a Dutch court ordered a 41-year-old man, who judges said had fathered between 550-600 children, to stop donating sperm. The court considered it “sufficiently plausible” that the children has or could have negative psychosocial consequences including problems around identity & fears of incest.

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    The court therefore “prohibits the defendant from donating his semen to new prospective parents after the issuing of this judgment”, judge Thera Hesselink said on Friday.

    “The donor deliberately misinformed prospective parents about the number of children he had already fathered in the past,” the district court in The Hague said.

    “All these parents are now confronted with the fact that the children in their family are part of a huge kinship network, with hundreds of half-siblings, which they did not choose,” it said.

    “The point is that this kinship network with hundreds of half-brothers and half-sisters is much too large,” court spokesperson Gert-Mark Smelt told AFP.

    In 2020, a deceased gynaecologist was accused of fathering at least 17 children with women who believed they were receiving sperm from anonymous donors.

    The year before, it emerged that a Rotterdam doctor had fathered at least 49 children while inseminating women seeking fertility treatment.

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